Difference between Tape and Record

What is the difference between Tape and Record?

Tape as a noun is flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides, adhesive tape. while Record as a noun is information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

Tape

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides, adhesive tape. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll, video tape or audio tape. Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of hockey stick

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bind with adhesive tape. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. To understand, figure out.

Example sentence: Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Record

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a record of information.Specifically, to make an audio or video recording of.To give legal status to by making an official public record.To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.To repeat; to practice.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.A set of data relating to a single individual or item.The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.

Example sentence: And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

We hope you now know whether to use Tape or Record in your sentence.

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